There was plenty to like for innovation and technology in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ second budget, the centrepiece of which was a $392 million Industry Growth Program aimed at building...
Measures to ease cost of living pressures and new investment in Medicare and the care economy will grab the first cut of headlines from Jim Chalmer’s second federal budget,...
National Energy Resources Australia is the first Industry Growth Centre to announce it will shut down after federal funding is discontinued in July. In its seven years of operation,...
A review of the Industry Growth Centres found the long running scheme was helping key Australian industries to innovate and grow before its funding was cut by the federal...
The Industry Growth Centres have not been given additional federal funding in the federal budget delivered on Tuesday, despite Labor appearing to back the program in the run up...
The federal government has committed to releasing a review of the Industry Growth Centre program that sat with the former Coalition government since 2020. Minister for Science and Industry...
Management textbooks and business self-help books tell us that strategy drives structure which in turns drives funding and resource allocation decisions. Yet in public administration and public policy it...
It is a signature industry policy of the Coalition, but the Industry Growth Centre program looks like having a more certain future if Labor forms government after the Saturday...
The Industry Growth Centres did not receive a budget lifeline on Tuesday, confirming the end of government support for the long running program which has had its remaining budget...
Australia’s Industry Growth Centres have been allocated an additional $19 million to transition to self-sustaining operation next year when the federal government pulls its support for the long-running initiative....